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  • The cage has two sides : an ethical perspective of prison abolition

    Creator:
    Lenn, Christopher
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    Current calls for prison abolition have been met with major public resistance. It is time for movements for prison abolition to engage with these questions: How have contemporary people of the United States come to accept mass incarceration and the prison industrial complex, and, what is the impact? Using an...
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    ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Christopher Lenn for the degree of Master of Arts in Applied Ethics

  • Decaying in Storage: The Closures of Three Nuclear Reactors in the Pacific Northwest

    Creator:
    Oney, Celia E.
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    People involved in a nuclear activity, whether they are developing it, benefiting from it, or opposing it, see inherent connections between various aspects of nuclear science and technology. This thesis investigates three nuclear sites: a university research reactor, a dual-purpose reactor that produced plutonium for the U.S. military and electricity...
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    Center Records. 25 T. V. Anderson, J. C. Ringle, and A. G. Johnson, “Detailed Disassembly Procedures

  • Cosmopolitan Communitarianism: Embracing Nonviolence through an Ecological Perspective

    Creator:
    Henschke, Stefan
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    In order to advocate for a nonviolent future, I argue throughout this thesis that we must redefine our sense of self within a social context. I assert that Communitarianism, which seeks balance between the individual and their many overlapping communities, can situate our identities as less absolute and more constitutive...
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    we interpret the world around us. Christopher Raiche, president of the Harvard Buddhist Community

  • Early Adventures of a Home Economist: Ava B. Milam’s Integration of Science and Home Economics at Oregon Agricultural College, 1911-1921

    Creator:
    McHugh, Kathleen M.
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    Across from the Memorial Union on Oregon State University’s campus sits Milam Hall, the former site of the Department of Home Economics. The building is named for Ava Milam Clark, the dean of home economics for thirty-three years, from 1917 to 1950. I aim to understand Ava Milam’s early career...
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    , James A. Lackey, and J. A. Ward to William Jasper Kerr, “In Appreciation,” 1915, College of Home

  • Learning to Care : Applied Ethics for Improving Farmed Animal Welfare

    Creator:
    Zarajczyk, Katie MaryRuth
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    This thesis seeks to explore how an ecofeminist lens is currently the most useful approach for improving farmed animal welfare. Through examining Western conceptions of non-human animals, I seek to shed light upon the inconsistent treatment of domestic species. Species that are dependent upon us deserve, at a minimum, not...
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    . Through the lens of Carol J Adams ecofeminist critique, I examine how Western culture has

  • Environmental Virtue Ethics in Buddhism

    Creator:
    Peng, Chih-Wei
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    In this thesis, in order to understand why Buddhists in Southeast Asia protect rainforests and to establish a solid foundation for Buddhist environmental ethic, my first two tasks are to draw a clear picture regarding two major environmental concepts--nature and anthropocentrism--in Buddhism and to defend the claims that the Buddhist...
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